Social Networks

Amnesty International has recently uncovered a spear phishing campaign dubbed Operation Kingphish that targeted groups in Qatar and Nepal.
Human rights organizations and journalists continue to be a privileged target of phishing campaigns that attempt...

Facebook has fixed a serious security bug that could have been exploited by hackers to delete any video shared by anyone on their wall.
A new bug was discovered in the Facebook platform by the security researcher Dan Melamed, the flaw could be exploited...

The bug hunter Andrew Leonov has described how to exploit an ImageMagick flaw to remotely execute code on a Facebook server.
The hacker Andrew Leonov (@4lemon) has described how to exploit the so-called ImageMagick vulnerability to remotely execute...

A security expert discovered a flaw in the Facebook Messenger audio clip recording feature that could be exploited to listen to audio chats.
Voice recording is one of the most important features of instant messaging systems, it allows users to rapidly...

A Facebook hack could have been exploited to retrieve the private email address of any user with a serious impact on the privacy.
A smart Facebook hack allowed to retrieve the private email address of any user. The issue was discovered by the hacker...

Lynda.com is notifying customers a data breach, according to the company an unauthorized third party accessed a database containing user information.
Lynda.com is an online learning platform that was acquired last year by LinkedIn.
The company started...

Researchers have discovered a new hacking campaign leveraging on Facebook Messenger to spread the Locky ransomware via SVG images.
The Locky Ransomware is spread via a downloader, experts noticed that it is able to bypass Facebook defense measures...

Facebook users who logged on to their accounts discovered that their accounts turned to a "memorialized account," due to their alleged death.
Funny as it is disturbing, but the technology can also do this and this time it has happened to Facebook....

Good news, the social network giant Facebook finally announced the availability of the open source OSquery developer kit for Windows.
Facebook announced to have completed the porting of its detection open-source tool OSquery to Windows. The tool allows...